Many believe that Bernie Sanders will lose the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton in part because he cannot galvanize “the black vote.” …
Ultimately, the idea of a black vote is getting in the way of a more accurate understanding of where significantly different segments of the population are headed, and obscuring what black people have long known: that black identity is always malleable, and can be fractured as well. … The black political establishment, while still a juggernaut, is slowly being challenged. It happened with Barack Obama, who ran for President in 2008 with, at first, little black-establishment support. And it has happened again, to a lesser extent, in 2016, with a Jewish socialist from Vermont. CONT.
Collier Meyerson, The New Yorker